Something Dave Draper Said
I’m nearly 2 months into my first bulking phase, and as a beginner, not knowing what to expect, what’s normal or abnormal definitely plays on my mind a little bit. I’m satisfied I’ve made substantial muscle gains, but I also know due to my lax approach to counting calories during the first month, I’ve also added a fair bit of fat around my waist.
All I seem to read on forums is people saying about how if you get a bit of fat, it’s best to cut ‘til it’s all gone, and start out clean. Earlier on today I was considering this, and also wondering how much further I should take it before cutting.
Then I read a newsletter by Dave Draper, which made me realize, for lack of a better turn of phrase, "to make an omelette, you’ve got to break a few eggs."
Dave put it like this:
"A few months of bulking are not enough. And a few months of bulking for today’s preening bodybuilders are far more than they generally can stand. If they don’t start out fat and overweight and in a rush to lose the fatty pounds, they start thin and under-muscled and in a rush to gain muscular pounds. The first signs of a roll around the midsection and they freak; they go on a diet and increase their aerobic exercise. The roll fades along with their scant muscle gain and they repeat step one of the weight-gain process. Oops! It’s that nasty roll again, and the cycle continues. At best they increase their general conditioning, which is good, great even, but frustrating to the burgeoning muscleman inside.
Real musclebuilding requires a dedication to construction-zone training. You don’t build your dream house or custom hot rod or garden retreat without creating a mess in the process. There’s the bare ground and foundation, the raw framework, tools in heaps and various stages of unfinished work. Long before it all comes together, it all falls apart again and again. That’s how things are built."
This pretty much clinched it for me. Fat or no fat, the show should, and will, go on.
P.S. Did you also see how he said ‘real musclebuilding’ in his newsletter? – mad coincidence! Obviously when I created this blog, I wasn’t out of my mind when I envisaged that there was such a thing. 
